José Juan de Aguilar Acuña Tablada (April 3, 1871 – August 2, 1945) was a Mexican poet, art critic and, for a brief period, diplomat.

Florilegio, his first collection of poetry, was published in 1899 and established him as one of Mexico's pioneer 'modernists', although at that period such writing approximated the style of the French decadent movement.

[5] During the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution, Tablada spent time in Paris and then in New York City until he was appointed a cultural secretary in the Foreign Service in 1918, serving in Bogotá, Caracas, and Quito.

On November 5, 1946 his remains we interred at the Rotunda of Illustrious Persons Tablada is recognized as among the originators of modern Mexican poetry and is credited with the introduction of haiku to his country.

[9] His haiku are distinguished by their aesthetic quality, as for example in and by their humour: In 1921 his friend the composer Edgard Varèse incorporated an earlier piece by Tablada, La Cruz del Sur, in his Offrandes (1921),[12] and two years later dedicated his Hyperprism to the poet.